The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
We are on our end of season break this week! No sessions are scheduled. Season 2 starts next week!
Browse our discussion groups or check out our full calendar.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Content + Design
Hosted by Gladys Diandoki & Janine Griffin
This intersectional group explores the intricate relationship between content and design, emphasizing their essential collaboration in creating effective outputs.
2 PM ET Mindfulness & Modeling
Hosted by Joe Elmendorf & Suzan Quick
This thoughtful group explores the parallels between mindfulness and modeling, emphasizing the integration of mind and body, the significance of presence over outcomes, and the patterns that help us remember what matters.
1 PM ET PUBLIC Ask Me Anything (Matt Arnold)
Hosted by Matt Arnold
An open Q&A session where members can bring anything on their mind and ask Matt Arnold directly.
2 PM ET Knowledge Management & Governance
Hosted by Dina Bennett & Jane Leuchter
This lively group focuses on collaborative efforts in knowledge management and governance, bringing together individuals tackling complex documentation and change proposals.
3 PM ET Agreement Is Not Alignment
Hosted by Matt Arnold
A workshop exploring the difference between simple agreement and true alignment when groups make decisions together.
12 PM ET Diagram Critique
Hosted by Abby Covert
Bring a diagram of your own for group feedback and critique in this hands-on workshop.
2 PM ET Career Transitions
Hosted by Chloe Westman & Susan Kraft-Yorke
This supportive group focuses on navigating the challenges and opportunities of career transitions, whether you're changing roles, industries, or re-entering the workforce.
2 PM ET Trade-offs: A Magic Wand for Making Progress
Hosted by Abby Covert
A steady group focused on a monthly theme in information architecture.
3 PM ET Formalizing the community: the birth of the IA Institute
Hosted by David Farkas & Cass Fellerman
A special session featuring recorded interviews connected to the Information Architecture Conference (IAC).
What’s going on?
Week of August 3, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week Moving Through Fear (July 27) explored the four Fs of the fear response — fight, flight, freeze, and fawn — and how each shows up in the body. Making Sense of The Future (July 28) used short fiction-writing exercises to imagine how anonymity and authentication might change by 2038. Making Sense of Neurodiversity & Neuroinclusion (July 29) asked what sensory experiences regulate members, how environment shapes the nervous system, and what an ideal sensory space would include. Making Sense of Facilitation (July 30) discussed how facilitators can encourage meaningful participation among people with different personality, thinking, and communication styles. Making Sense of Language (July 31) examined the tension between standardizing language for the sake of usability or clean data and flattening real human identity.
Themes from last week:
- The body as an early warning system
- Boxes, forms, and the flattening of identity
- Structuring the room so more people can actually show up
Gaps between our capability and our confidence create discomfort.
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